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Show CAT WAS CARLYLE'S COMPANION AT MEALS Lottor of Mrs. Oarlyle Shows Peculiarity Pe-culiarity Indulged by Groat Author. Special Cablo to Tho Tribune. LONDON, Fob 21. When Thomas Car-lylo Car-lylo ate. his wifo locked up the cat This is the 'Interesting disclosure In n letter 1y tho wife of tho author, which has Just been made public by Reginald Blunt. She wroto: Well! tliore sho is again and as long as she attends Mr. C. at his meals (sho doesn't care a snuff of tobacco for him ut any other time) so long will Mr, C. contlnuo to give her bits of meat, uml driblets of milk, to tho ruination of tho carpets and hearth rugs! I liavo ovor and ovor again pointed out the stains sho has made but ho won't bcllevo them hor doing. And the dining room carpet was so old and ugly that It wasn't worth rows with one's husbajid about. Now. however, that nlco now cloth nuiaL bo protected against the cat abuBo. So what I wish Is that you would shut up the creature when Mr. C. lias Ids breakfast, or dinner, or tea. And If he remarks on her absence, ab-sence, say It was my express desire, lie has no ldcu what a selfish, Immoral, Im-moral, Improper beast sho Is, nor the mlschiof she does to the carpet!. |